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by I. Vishengrad
The Yeshiva of R' Pesach Pruskin in Kobrin was an important educational Torah
institute. R' Pesach, a native of Kobrin, came back to his town after many
travels and immediately started taking care of establishing a Yeshiva in town.
In Kobrin he found the soil ready for it because the war years stopped the movement of the yeshivas in Russia and the town accepted him with open arms. The synagogue Chaye Adam was put at his disposal for the great yeshiva and the synagogue of the Chassidim of Kobrin for a small yeshiva. A committee was established to work for this project.
After a short while there appeared youngsters from all parts of Poland, many of whom later married women from the daughters of the town and stayed as its permanent residents. Also, our own youngsters enjoyed this institution and instead of traveling great distances many of them settled in this place. Part of the town's youngsters still continued to travel to other yeshivas, following the saying, Travel to a place of Torah. The budget of the yeshiva youngsters was assured ahead of time. A small part of it was arranged in Achilat Yamim which means that on the seventh day of the week, each day they ate at the table of another homeowner. Some of those youngsters received a meager salary to sustain themselves (with the help of their parents). The Rabbi used to tell the lesson during the hours of the evening. Entry was free and many of the citizens of our town came to the yeshiva during the lesson to be a free listener. And even many who distanced themselves from the life of the Torah came to remember their past or came to look for the Matmid of Bialik and to absorb spirituality for a few hours. Over the yeshiva youngsters there was a strict supervisor who followed their comings and goings in the yeshiva and outside. A special hour was devoted to preaching morals between nine and ten in the evening, when the youngsters thought of repenting in the books about morality and their cries reached heaven. The youngsters in their innocence thought that there were no greater sinners than themselves. They appeared in every Zionist assembly and in the name of the Torah always disturbed, and many of the town's residents became their opponents.
After the death of the old Rabbi, Rabbi Pesach Pruskin was elected by the
majority of the citizens of the town to be the town's Rabbi. He had a special
suggestive power to win over the heart of the crowd in his excited sermons.
[Page 332]
After R' Pesach was elected to be the Rabbi, there was established a committee
to build the house for the Rabbi. In Kobriner Street there stood a building
which was called guest house. They enthusiastically approached the house.
Many working people from different occupations contributed work days without
getting paid. The coachman transported the materials without pay. Money for
acquiring the materials was collected in a short time. All were busy in this
holy work and so after a short while the building was completed. Then started a
big argument in town between Rabbi Pruskin and the people of R' Michael. The
side of Rabbi Pruskin was interested in taking over the existing institutions
and gaining control over them. The war went on for several years and divided
the town into two.
Rabbi Pruskin left the business of his yeshiva to go to America, but his people continued to act in his absence. They were interested in gaining for him the recognition of the Polish authorities who would appoint him also as the rabbi that is recognized by the government. I remember the day of the national Polish Holiday, the 3rd of May, when Rabbi Michael delivered the customary sermon on current events in Polish. In the great synagogue appeared Rabbi Pruskin with his men. Before Rabbi Michael finished his speech he took the podium and started speaking in Yiddish, but the representatives of the government left the synagogue before that happened.
Over time the strife settled down. Each Rabbi governed his side. Then Rabbi Pruskin became ill. Family problems influenced him. For several years he suffered from a disease from which he did not recover. His son-in-law and his son continued the yeshiva.
The enthusiasm of the citizens also dissipated. The yeshiva was dependent on a
budget from the outside. Only several youngsters continued their studies. Then
came years of turmoil and the end of the yeshiva and its glory. (I. Vishengrad).
by M. Tzinovitz
Rabbi Pesach Pruskin was a self-appointed ruler. His greatness in Talmud he
achieved only because of his dedication and his terrific energy. He was a
native of Kobrin. During his youth he stayed around the yeshivas in Lita and as
a supervisor in the yeshiva of Slutzk by the Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. Lo and
behold, several years later he had shown himself to be qualified to teach Torah
by giving lessons in the Gemara and the interpretations and lessons by the
method of understanding according to the version of Lita of Rabbi Chaim
Halevi Solovieitshick. He was even more talented in managing the yeshiva from
the organizational financial point of view.
[Page 333]
He became the head of the yeshiva in Shaklov and succeeded in his lessons.
Young forces came in great number to him since they found in him a good
instructor for the Talmud fitting to develop their young talents. His lessons
were not difficult. He did not approach a whole question at one time but took
some beginning issue that was hard to understand, dissected and explained it.
For a harder to understand dispute of the Rambam or Rabad he explained it and
made it clear before the audience of his listeners in wonderful likeness and
this aroused in them clear and adequate understanding.
In his yeshiva in Shaklov he was helped a lot by the rabbi of that congregation, R' Meir Shwartz. Thanks to him, that local and old yeshiva that came down from its days of glory when the other yeshivas developed in Lita and Zamut nevertheless began to take its important place even in the farthest end of white Russia. After a while, before the beginning of the First World War, he was expected to be the head of the Rabbinic Court in Amtzislav. There he also directed a great yeshiva as the political regime and the spiritual regime changed.
When the town of his congregation remained in the hands of the Soviets, Rabbi Pesach Pruskin found it necessary to come back to his native town of Kobrin that already belonged then to Poland. In the year 1923 he established here a great yeshiva. They left him this valley to be active in because until then the best of the young Torah students in Kobrin had to travel to the towns of Lita and now there was established here a high yeshiva according to the characteristic shape of yeshivas, establishing the study of morals, because Rabbi Pesach Pruskin himself identified with that movement, in which he had taught for some time in the famous Talmud Torah in Kalm. The yeshiva in Kobrin concentrated in it some very talented young people from other yeshivas. Among them were also people from Kobrin who were graduates from the small local yeshiva where the famous rabbi and Talmudic scholar, R' Mordechai Shimon, was teaching. He was a graduate of the yeshiva in Volozin.
Upon the death of Rabbi David Greenberg, the head of the Rabbinic Court, the
Jews of Kobrin and representatives of various associations, circles, and
synagogues selected Rabbi Pesach Pruskin to be the head of the Rabbinic Court,
as one who continues the tradition of the previous Kobrin Rabbinate. Rabbi
Pesach knew how to attract to himself the wider circles of Kobrin by his
excellent, sermons. He had a mouth that produced pearls. The sermon had a good
shape, built with good taste, and also had a lofty content. He knew to explain
lofty ideas and ethics and religious investigation in a popular way.
[Page 334]
This writer, who studied by himself about half a year in the yeshiva in Kobrin
(in the summer of 1.924), still remembers the sermon that Rabbi Pesach gave in
the great synagogue in Kobrin after he received the Rabbinic appointment signed
by the majority of the people in Kobrin. He remembers the great excitement of
the rabbi when he mentioned the verse from the book of psalms, The stone which
the builders refused has become the chief cornerstone, how it is that a son of
an unknown family and not famous in its time in Kobrin succeeded in becoming
its spiritual leader.
Also, the writer remembers his sermon and the awakening words of R' Pesach in the month of Elul and during the high holidays. Almost all the people of the town, even those who were secular among them, came streaming to listen to those sermons. During the same year his admirers, those who appreciated R' Pesach, built the house of the Rabbi near the synagogue Chaye Adam where the yeshiva students were studying and there was a big celebration when the house was dedicated. Because of these sermons R' Pesach became very beloved by the masses.
In 1928 when there were for the first time elections to the religious congregations held by the Polish Government almost in all the border towns, the victory went to the block lead by Rabbi Pesach, which represented various circles, among them the Chassidim, the representatives of the synagogue, the artisans, etc. He was elected to be the official head of the Rabbinic Court of the congregation and he also took over the previous authority given to R' Michael Shmoish as the Rabbi appointed by the government.
Of course all this caused a worsening of relations between these two sides. On the side of Rabbi Michael stood the old aristocracy, part of the home owners and the Zionists. This circle centered especially around the great synagogue where Rabbi Michael had his regular place for prayer and studying the Torah.
On the side of Rabbi Pesach was also the teacher Rabbi Noach Vineberg. In the
year 1930 when his yeshiva in Kobrin was put in a difficult financial
situation, Rabbi Pesach traveled to America to start a financial campaign to
benefit the yeshiva. He received there a wonderful reception in the circles of
the famous rabbis and thousands of people came to hear his wise and excellent
sermons. He was honored to be the guest of honor in the Yeshivas of Rabbi
Yitzchak Elchanan in New York and to speak there before the older yeshiva
students an excellent lesson in the Talmud.
[Page 335]
The yeshiva in Kobrin had about eighty students during its years of existence
(1923-1939) and it concentrated in it some excellent Torah scholars, the great
majority of them from other places, having come to Kobrin for a certain period.
There were even famous yeshiva students from Mir and Radin, Slavodka, Brisk
D'Lita and similar places that came and made a place for their Torah and found
here a comfortable environment for their studies.
A great help to the character of the yeshiva according to the other ethical yeshivas was given by the superintendent and the spiritual instructor of this yeshiva, Rabbi Joseph Leib Nevdik. From among the homeowners who concentrated around the yeshiva should be mentioned the local physician, Mr. Wiseman, who was among the regulars in praying in the minyan.
Also, we should mention the other head of the yeshiva, Rabbi Shlomo Matot. As the head of the Rabbinic college, Rabbi Pesach Pruskin influenced greatly the direction of the yeshiva and aside from his regular lessons in the yeshiva his door was open to every yeshiva student to discuss matters of Torah, to instruct, and to give individual treatment in the understanding of the Talmud.
We should also mention where the yeshiva was housed, the synagogue Chaye Adam. Where the studies took place was the greatest Talmudic library of all the synagogues in town, even larger than the Ratner synagogue's. And it had hundreds of books that were of great help to the students of the yeshiva who had interest in those books.
We should also mention the sexton of that synagogue, the old Rabbi R' Yehuda, who treated with fatherly feeling and with dedication the yeshiva student. He told various stories about the greats of Kobrin from the past that he had known face to face. He was familiar with their comings and goings and their study of the Torah.
Rabbi Pesach Pruskin died in Kobrin at the beginning of the year 1940 during
the Soviet regime, when the end of Jewish Kobrin had already begun. Two of his
sons should be mentioned, R' Natan Netta and R' Leib. R' Natan Netta was a
righteous person, great in the Torah, who died before his father in Kobrin. R'
Leib became the son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Rosenstein, who was the spiritual
superintendent in the yeshiva of Lomza. Only the youngest son survived and
remained alive and is now in New York with other refugees of Mir Yeshiva.
[Page 336]
by M. Tzinovitz
Rabbi Michael Shmoish was born in a small town in the area of Brisk to a Hassid
from Kobrin. He married the daughter of the rabbi in the congregation of Mosh
near Baranovitch, of the Slonim Chassidim. He came in 1905 to Kobrin and became
a rabbinic judge in the small synagogue in the Brisker Street. He was supported
by the Chassidim of Kobrin and the Chassidim of Slonim at the same time. During
the high holidays he would pray in the synagogue of the Chassidim of Kobrin and
was among the company of Rabbi David, son of Rabbi Noach Naftali.
With the beginning of the German occupation, Rabbi Michael succeeded in standing out in one. of the first assemblies as a community worker of the first degree, as a clever and excellent lobbyist. He was helped by the young yeshiva student Moshe Gvietzman in the matter of helping the many poor in town. Avraham Levits was his translator and his advisor before the German authorities. The Germans recognized him not only as a Rabbi and a teacher in the congregation but also as a Rabbi recognized by the authorities, by the government. All the monies from the EZRA [aid society] in Germany and then later from the relief in America came to his address. He knew how to manage the congregation with taste and with knowledge and with clean hands. At the same time there were many refugees from Brisk in Kobrin and among them impressive looking people. They saw him also as their most fitting representative.
It should be remembered to his credit that he was involved in establishing the excellent religious school Tvuna for young yeshiva students who remained in town, like Moshe Gvietzman and Gedalyahu Alon (Roguznitzky). It was an institution with distinct national and religious character.
R' Michael was more inclined to the Mizrachi and signed the bulletins or the leaflets of the Jewish National Fund in Keren Hayesod, but because of local conditions he did not, in the open, join the religious Zionists.
Of course he could not satisfy all the receivers in Kobrin. Some of them suspected him and gossiped that he did not distribute the charity money appropriately and later they took revenge on him. When the former head of Rabbinic Court, Rabbi David Greenberg, died, they went to the other side, to the party of Rabbi Pesach Pruskin.
R' Michael educated his sons to Torah and to a sense of purpose in life and one
of them studied in the Mir Yeshiva. His son-in-law, a famous scholar, Rabbi
Kopel Kahana, who was a graduate of the Yeshiva Beit Yitzchak, was the head of
the Rabbinic Court in Yalovitch. He was rescued by accident from the Nazis
because at the time he was in England and now he is serving as professor in one
of the universities of that country.
[Page 337]
by I. Vishengrad
Of medium height, thin, clever and with serious eyes staring from his pale
face, of few words, creating no noise around himself, modest, he spread holy
glory everywhere he appeared. An imposing figure who spelled honor and glory to
someone who is the son of the covenant and someone who is not the son of the
covenant. He was firm in his views but still listened to others with humility
and honesty.
Only the few who stood in his circle and operated with him and followed his deeds closely could appreciate the greatness of the man and his activity. It is impossible for this writer to deliver the complete life details that deserve a special book to the memory of the distinguished Rabbi that our town was honored to have. But I will deliver some details that I received from the brother of the deceased and some memories that were imbedded in me when I was still a youth and are worth putting on paper.
The Rabbi was born in the town of Visoko-D'Lita to his poor parents R' Shmuel Meir (a native of Kobrin) and to his mother Elka, of blessed memory, in the year 1884. According to the spirit of the time, he received his education in the cheder and then he transferred to a yeshiva and excelled in his sharpness and his knowledge in his studies. Before he reached the age of twenty he already had in his hands a teaching permit from the great rabbis of the time, the Rabbi of Lomza, of blessed memory, and from R' Chaim Solovietshick, of blessed memory, from Brisk D'Lita, who was very strict in these matters and would not give ordination until he examined the candidate and his studies.
In the year 1905-6 he married the daughter of the rabbi of Mamosh and became himself a teacher or a rabbi in Kobrin. Very quickly the rabbi became famous in his cleverness and everything from small to large was brought to him.
In 1914, when the First World War broke and many refugees came to Kobrin
because the Russians evacuated Brisk and the surroundings, the Rabbi immersed
himself completely in taking care of the refugees, in housing them and feeding
them. Our town was never known for its richness and with the refugees its
population almost doubled.
[Page 338]
Still the rabbi took care of the minimal necessary demands of those refugees.
To many of the refugees, Kobrin was the closest station on their way to more
distant places because they had nothing and they were very poor. But the
committee that was established made all the efforts to lighten the suffering of
the refugees who actually knew only one address, the one of R' Michael (as he
was called for short). The Rabbi gave his body and soul to this project.
The German authority in town quickly recognized his honesty and gave him wide authority to manage the project of helping the refugees and the town's poor. Of course there were also cases of price gouging and of taking food outside of the town boundaries and then he was forced to use the only weapon that he had in his hand and that was to declare the profiteers as ostracized, (and by the way we should mention that the cases of profiteering were few).
Although he had in hand the keys to the flour, the treasury from which there would be given little notes to the hungry to get free bread, in his own home there was misery and poverty and with my own ears I heard one of the refugee women tell her friend out of jealousy that when she came to get the note for the bread in his house (which was also his office) she found R' Michael sitting over a plate of radish and eating. She said the radish was as white as snow, at the time when such delicacies were forbidden to him for health reasons. And often I found his son, who was a classmate in school, literally hungry for bread.
His organizational powers were amazing. The Rabbi took upon himself this whole weight without using any clerks and secretaries as was the custom.
Among his important activities were organizing a school for boys by the name of Tvuna, which was the only cultural institution with a bent for religious nationalism. And many of the youth of the town would visit it and he was its director and he would find time to come and visit it and examine the students. At the end of the war when help started coming from America from the relief, the Joint opened a branch for aid in our town, one of R' Michael's feeding houses where the children of the town received nutritious meals, a Jewish town hospital and a committee to distribute clothes to the poor of the town, etc.
R' Michael bought then the buildings of the barracks of Mr. Margalit which
stood at the end of the street Traguta and there were housed all the
institutions of the town. The house became a spiritual and philanthropic
center, such as the orphanage, the workshops of ORT to teach various
occupations, carpentry for boys and sewing for girls, the school Tvuna, the
school for girls in the Yiddish language that later became Tzisha and more
recently also the Hebrew school Tarbut. It is hard to understand how R' Michael
had all that energy to head all those institutions and to work literally in all
the daily activities.
[Page 339]
It is known that immediately after announcing the Torah verdict he would
quickly leave his room so as not to be present and not to see which side was
paying the honorarium because the two quarreling sides decided in dispute would
compete in front of the Rabbi to show who gave more and who gave less.
In the selling of Chametz on the eve of Pesach he did not want to take part in any way at all, but his many friends found a trick for that too. They put instead his young son and he would arrange the selling of the Chametz and indeed there was a great sum that was collected from that transaction. Those who were familiar with numbers figured and found that if he himself arranged that sale he would be the person with the largest income in town. It is told that in the days of the Joint in town, his old mother came to visit him and found that in the house there were no sheets and pillow cases. People literally slept without them. And his mother addressed him angrily and said, How could it be that the man who has in his hand the keys for all the clothing and such would not give to the poor of his own house as he gives to the other poor people in town. And his answer was that if he was like the other poor people in town they would not entrust to him the keys to the warehouses. His relatives were always angry at him that he did not give them special treatment over others.
After the occupation of the town by the Poles, he had to gain the trust of the local authorities. He was successful in that and his influence over them was great. He was appointed by them as the official rabbi and in his hands were entrusted the books of birth registration that he saved from destruction during the years of the war. He had a place of honor in the circles of government and they valued his opinion.
R' Michael was a Zionist and an enthusiastic one. His name always appeared in bulletins issued by the centers of the Jewish National Fund and the Mizrachi, bulletins that called for the liberation of the land of Israel and people. It is known that many of the rabbis at that time were making a great sacrifice with such involvement, endangering their rabbinic careers.
A special story is his sacrificing his soul for the soul of any Jew. I heard
from R' Levits, of blessed memory, how he saved a Jew from the Kobrin area
without even knowing him. After the occupation of the city by the Poles, he was
told that the military authorities were leading a Jew to the gallows, accusing
him of spying.
[Page 340]
On a late night our rabbi aroused his non-Jewish friends among the Poles and he
vouched for him that if the person who was accused were really proven guilty he
would offer his head instead. This deed influenced the military people and the
man was released.
Many of us remember the case of the youngster who was blind in one eye and who
was accused of killing a village woman outside of town after she received some
money from America in the mail. (The youth was serving as a translator in the
post office of the peasants who paid him). R' Michael knew what could happen.
Rabbi Michael
of Blessed Memory |
Years of crisis came upon him when Rabbi Pesach Pruskin, of blessed memory, was crowned as the Rabbi of the town after the passing away of the old rabbi from Pinsk. He captured the hearts of the masses with his enthusiastic sermons, but the friends of R' Michael did not leave him and on the same week he was presented with a certificate of the rabbinate which was signed by the important people in town and the progressive intelligentsia, especially from the Zionist circles. Of course after that there was strife in town. The two rabbis stood away from the whole issue. But the sides (as they were called in town) were very involved. Echoes of the dissent reached the Landsmanshaft of the Kobrin people in America and libelous writings flew back and forth. As time passed this dissent died down. Many of Rabbi Pruskin's side came back to Rabbi Michael feeling sorry for the hurt that they had caused him.
In addition to this he also took care of economic matters. As is known he was the one who established a branch of the cooperative Jewish bank that was established then in every town. This Jewish bank was the first that was established after the war in our town and with management by the Rabbi it progressed and became one of the most established in town. He managed the bank as a director without getting any rewards and one of the head managers who came from Warsaw for an inspection was very surprised when he visited the rabbi at home and found that his daughter was washing the floors. He thought that she was a servant. He wanted to give her some tip (as was the custom abroad) and how surprised was he to hear that the servant was the daughter of the rabbi-director.
So the Rabbi lived a modest life. He needed very little. He was weak in his
body but a hero in the spirit. He made a living from yeast and Sabbath candles
that his friends would sell every week and would bring the profits to the
Rabbi's wife. In the very strict circles he was famous in the honesty and
purity of his heart. He married his daughters, the older one to Rabbi Kopel
Kahana who today serves as a lecturer in the law school at the University of
Cambridge, and the younger one to a young man who served as the Rabbi in
Mezrich. And when it seemed that he came to a place of rest and security there
came the wrath upon him of the wicked one and the Rabbi, who could have escaped
the bad times, fell together with the people of his town and he did not leave
them until the last moment. What a pity for those who are gone and cannot be
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A few years ago, the highest power LEDs you could buy capped out around three watts. Now, LED manufacturers are taking things to ridiculous power ratings with 30, 40, and even 90 watt LEDs. Getting these high-power LEDs are no longer a problem, but powering them certainly is. [Thomas] built a LED driver capable of powering these gigantic LEDs and creating a light show that is probably bright enough to cause bit of eye damage.
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Permanent Sketch 5: Monocled Devil
Artwork details: pen on coloured paper, 3 x 4.5 inches (8 x 11 cm), 2007.
This is one of a series of drawings I started in 2007. They are a little different to my usual way of working, since they were in no way planed, instead I simply began to draw with a permanent pen (so no rubbing-out...) and continued until I had something finished - hence 'Permanent Sketches'.
Permanent Sketch 5: Monocled Devil - drawing by nancy Farmer
None of the pieces of paper I started on were ever discarded half way through - and though naturally I believe some to be more successful than others, my opinion of which is which is not always the same as anyone else's. All this group of drawings are done on coloured paper, generally with the drawing in black and then highlights added in colours lighter than the paper, with white or metallic pens. It's an exciting way of working because I never know what I'm going to get until after I have started - they are very random and a bit deranged, but very engaging! All the 'Permanent Sketches' to date are very small - mostly around 3x5 inches.
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I have a friend who is a homeopathic. She told me that I should stop eating pen-raised salmon because they are fed a lot of antibiotics. I was very disappointed because I thought I was eating a safe product.
I don't know how to get more info about this, but if you guys know anything about it, I'm sure a lot of us would appreciate it.
Dearest Claudia,
I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that your question is quite au courant — the talk of the seafood counter — so there's no shortage of resources to help you deal with the bad news. The bad news is that shopping for a healthy and environmentally friendly fish dinner requires carrying an elaborate chart in your wallet. The dish on fish? Antibiotics are just the tip of the wave.
Farmed fish are like the consumptive children of an aristocratic Victorian family: coddled, spoiled, inbred, genetically weak, servants catering to their every whim. Living in crowded net cages, farmed fishies are more prone to pests and diseases; to counteract the problem, they are indeed fed antibiotic-laced food. Dyes can be added to the food as well, to give the fishies' flesh a pinkish, wild-salmon-y hue. And they are fed as much as they will eat, which is a lot; it takes two or three pounds of wild caught fish to raise one pound of farmed salmon. The math does not bode well for wild fish runs.
What goes in must come out: A salmon farm with 200,000 fish produces the same amount of poop as a town of 62,000 people. Thanks to the sewage system, aka the tide, most of the antibiotic-laden excrement wafts slowly to the sea floor, where it suffocates all living beings.
Then there's the problem of fish escaping from farms. Despite their delicate Victorian constitutions, escapee salmon may thrive in the wild, raising fears that they will disrupt the natural gene pool and alter centuries-old wild fish customs. To top it all off, wild fish have little resistance to the diseases and pests that are prevalent in fish farms, so AWOL fishies can transmit dangerous illnesses. Concerned fish observers are seeing unprecedented levels of disease in salmon runs near fish farms.
The bottom line? For your own health, and for the health of ecosystems worldwide, it is best to eat sustainably harvested wild fish. Actually, for your own health it's probably best not to eat fish at all, since antibiotic-rich fish poop isn't the only thing contaminating our waters. But if you must eat fish, Environmental Defense and the National Audubon Society can help you make an educated decision about which fish to choose.
Enjoy your dinner,
Umbra Fisk
P.S. I think your friend might be a homeopath, not a homeopathic, just as Jesse Helms is a psychopath, not a psychopathic.


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Eating insects
Two billion people around the world, primarily in south-east Asia and Africa, eat insects - locusts, grasshoppers, spiders, wasps, ants - on a regular basis. Now, with food scarcity a growing threat, efforts are being made to normalise the concept of entomophagy, or the consumption of insects, for the other 5 billion. Last year, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published a list of more than 1,900 edible species of insects; the EU, meanwhile, offered its member states $3m to research the use of insects in cooking.
Why? Because insects, compared to livestock and fish, are a much more sustainable food source. They are available in abundance: for every human on Earth, there are 40 tonnes of insects. They have a higher food conversion rate than even our fastest-growing livestock (meaning they need to consume less to produce the same amount of meat) and they emit fewer greenhouse gases. As a fast-food option, which is how people treat them in countries such as Thailand, insects are greatly preferable to the water-guzzling, rainforest-destroying, methane-spewing beefburger. They are nutritious too: rich in protein, low in fat and cholesterol, high in calcium and iron.
That leaves the issue of palatability. Insects are generally viewed with disgust in the west, but attitudes are beginning to change. Thanks to adventurous restaurants - Copenhagen's Noma has served up ants and fermented grasshoppers - and pioneering organisations such as Ento in London, we are coming to terms with the notion that insects might actually be nice to eat.
Edible packaging
Our current food system is monumentally wasteful. Last January, a report found that almost half of the world's food is thrown away each year. In the UK alone, according to the government's waste adviser, Wrap, we generate 6.6m tonnes of food, drink and packaging waste per annum, at a cost of £5bn.
The fight against waste has thrown up some intriguing solutions.
For Harvard bioengineer David Edwards, the answer to the packaging problem is simple: just eat it. Last year, Edwards launched WikiCells, a company that makes edible packaging for fruit juices, coffee, ice cream and other products. Mimicking the design of a piece of fruit, the packaging consists of a soft skin "entirely comprised of natural food particles held together by nutritive ions" encased in a protective outer layer that is edible or at least biodegradable. Not only are the membranes more environmentally friendly than plastic, they are designed to taste good too.
Other packaging innovations promise to lengthen the shelf life of perishables, which would mean a reduction in food and drink waste. Pepceuticals, a company based in Leicester, is developing an antimicrobial film that it claims "should significantly prevent the deterioration of ... fresh meat and save waste".
Food replacement and eco-food innovation
One of the hottest trends attracting investors' in Silicon Valley has a lot to do with our future eating habits. A growing number of young entrepreneurs, driven by ecological as well as profit motives, are seeking to replace resource-hungry foods such as meat with synthetic and plant-based alternatives - and the likes of Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone are giving them financial support.
Their motives are well-founded. With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, and as western eating habits spread to countries such as China and India, more efficient and environmentally friendly ways are needed to produce protein-rich foods. Imitation meat is not a new concept, but Bay Area innovators, such as Beyond Meat, are making a chicken substitute good enough, they claim, to compete with the real thing. Meanwhile, Hampton Creek Foods, founded by 32-year-old entrepreneur Josh Tetrick, is working on a plant-based replacement for egg yolks to go in muffins, mayonnaise and other sauces.
Augmented-reality kitchens
As the popularity of programmes such as MasterChef and Great British Menu indicates, we have become a nation of food enthusiasts. For every budding culinary genius among us, however, there will always be a kitchen klutz who bungles the recipe and burns everything to cinders. What we need, in the view of Japanese computer scientist Yu Suzuki at Kyoto Sangyo University, is a helping hand from technology. Going several steps further than the online how-to video, Suzuki and colleagues have kitted out a kitchen with ceiling-mounted cameras and projectors that overlay cooking instructions on the ingredients. Detecting the outline of a fish, for example, Suzuki's system will help you fillet it by highlighting where an incision needs to be made.
Meanwhile, Jinna Lei, a computer scientist at the University of Washington, is developing a system that uses depth-sensing cameras to keep track of what the cook is doing. When a mistake is made, the system will prompt the cook to make amends.
While this may sound like good news, some critics believe these innovations will also minimise the basic joys of cooking. Technology writer Evgeny Morozov says: "Such standardisation can make our kitchens as exciting as McDonald's franchises."
Enhanced rice
Thirty years ago, scientists announced the creation of the world's first genetically modified plant. The new technology, it was hoped, would increase crop yields worldwide and ease global malnutrition. Since then, the fortunes of GM food have been decidedly mixed. Its uptake has been limited to just a few countries and many of its promises - including, more recently, the hope that GM crops would help reduce climate change emissions - have yet to be realised.
But in spite of continuing resistance to GM food among environmentalists and those wary of the corporations that control it, breakthroughs are expected.
Next year, it is hoped that golden rice - normal rice modified to produce beta-carotene, which the body converts into vitamin A - will be planted by farmers in the Philippines. If successful, golden rice will help counter blindness and other diseases in children in the developing world.
Meanwhile, another series of enhanced rice varieties is being developed using only conventional plant-breeding techniques. Zhikang Li, the Chinese plant breeder behind green super rice, which produces more grain while proving more resistant to droughts, floods and disease, hopes that his innovation will feed an extra 100 million people.
Andoni Aduriz, Morgaine Gaye, Charles Spence and Mike Knowlden will demonstrate ideas of food futures and "techno-emotional cuisine" at the Sunday afternoon session of FutureFest on 29 September
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- Knitpicks Palette Blue Note Heather (blue with hints of teal and pink)
- Aqua Purple lined (LT6E62) 6/0 Czech glass beads (24 g tube)
- Wire Beading Needles
- Yarn needle for finishing
- 2.5 inch Styrofoam Ball
- Size 3 (3.25 mm) double pointed knitting needles.
First string the beads onto the wool. I strung the entire package onto the wool, but I did not need that many beads for my ornament. Since I do not have a crochet hook small enough to add beads onto the work as I go, it was better to have too many beads strung than not enough.
The Pear-Shaped Beaded Ornament Pattern
Row 1: Cast on 6 sts. Join and knit 1 round.
Row 2: Kfb across (12 sts)
Row 3: Kfb across (24 sts)
Row 4: K1, slip 1 bead (s1b), *K2, s1b* repeat from * until the last stitch, K1. (12 beads)
Row 5: kfb across (48 sts)
Row 6: Repeat row 4 (24 beads)
Row 7: *K1, Kfb* across (72 sts)
Row 8: Repeat row 4 (36 beads)
Row 9: *K2, kfb* across (96 sts)
Row 10: Repeat row 4 (48 beads)
Row 11: K across
Row 12: *K2, s1b* across (48 beads)
Row 13: *K2, K2tog* across (72 sts)
Row 14: Repeat row 4 (36 beads)
Row 15: *K1, K2tog* across (48 sts)
Row 16: Repeat row 4 (24 beads)
Row 17: K2tog across (24 sts)
Row 18: Repeat row 4 (12 beads)
At this point, place your styrofoam ball into the knit sphere. You will need to stretch the knitting out to get it to fit close to the top of the ball. It may be helpful to have toothpicks to anchor the knitting around the ball. We will now be starting the section that will appear more lace-like. When you knit the following rows, pull the stitches tight so you can close the casing around the ball. If you are having difficulty getting the needle in the stitches, increase the number of dpn you're using.
Row 19: k across
Row 20: *K2, S1b* across (12 beads)
Row 21: k across
Row 22: K2tog across (12 sts)
Row 23: K2tog across (6 sts)
Cut yarn, pull though remaining stitches. Weave in loose ends. Using yarn or thread, tie a loop at the top so you can hang it on your tree. Step back and admire your work. Then take a picture and send it to me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Total beads used: 254
Total beads remaining on wool: 145
I accidentally ended up creating a pear shaped ornament. In theory, I could have stretched it over the ball completely, but it was so hard to knit around the Styrofoam ball that I added some rows at the top. They are stretched more, and have a lace-like effect that I found pleasing. I was also concerned about running out of beads, but as you can see I only used about 2/3 of the container.
I also learned that the beads are more visible on the WS of this project (I regret that I do not have a photo of this for you). I liked the subtle aspect, but if you want to beads to be sticking out more like dew drops, then change all K's to P's.
My tree, with my beaded ornament and knit snowbuddy.
The beaded ornament is a similar size to glass bobbles you may already own.
Abbreviations used in this pattern:
Kfb - increase by knitting into the front and back of a single stitch.
s1b - slip one bead
K - knit
P - purl
K2tog - decrease by knitting two stitches together
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We have been exploring our increasingly smartphone-aided interactions and what they're doing to the old-fashioned ways of being together, like talking face to face. Hundreds of you wrote in with your thoughts, which tend to be a variation on a theme All Tech reader Cassie Anderson laid out:
"I want to live in a world that still appreciates the value of human connection and interaction. I feel the social norms are changing and it's becoming more acceptable to use your electronic device during instances that were at one time considered rude (i.e. dinner, checkout line, etc.). People forget the beauty of that awkward beautiful silence that comes with not having a device in front of you."
It's hard to even notice how pervasive technology's influences on us can be. I didn't realize I was so addicted to my smartphone until I went to West Virginia's Wi-Fi-and-cell-service-free zone last fall, and lost connection for a day. It felt disorienting.
Not all of you think keeping our heads in our devices is concerning, since technology's effect on behavior has a certain inevitability to it. But if you realize devices are dominating your life and don't like it, or it's gotten in the way of your connections, how are you dealing with it? Being mindful is tough work. Here are a few fixes I found in your notes, classified by difficulty level:
When you're out with friends, play the game in which you pile up your phones at the middle of the table. Whoever reaches for his phone first has to pay for drinks. Or the meal.
-- Set up rules around smartphone use in your homes or within your friend groups. Reader Cathy Stinson's family policy is pretty simple — "in-person interaction trumps electronic interaction" — so in the family, during face-to-face gatherings, the phone messages wait.
Reader Ned Simpson was so irritated by smartphones distracting his loved ones that he banned phone use in his house. He writes: "My home has become a 'no active cell phone zone.' Gatherings here are much more fun and enjoyable as a result. With any luck, this may catch on, although I'm not holding my breath."
-- Hold your loved ones to a higher standard. Call them on it if they're too addicted to their phones. Tara Conneally wrote in with her personal experience:
"I was never aware of my own EDI [electronic display of insensitivity] until I received a text mid-dinner from the person sitting across from me, 'Am I boring you?' Hands down, the quickest method to get someone off their phone to pay attention to you."
Get rid of your smartphone completely and go back to the ol' flip phone. All Tech friend Denise Cheng, a researcher at MIT, tried it for more than a year and had to retrain her friends not to expect an instant reply to emails, because she doesn't receive them through her phone.
If you haven't seen Calm.com yet, it's a refreshingly simple site and app. Choose the amount of time you want to relax, and a narrator will walk you through meditation, telling you to close your eyes, relax your shoulders, notice sensations and more. (Yes, this relaxation tool requires you to actually use an electronic device. We know, we know.)
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The arrival of Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is an occasion both exciting and tinged with sadness. For dedicated fans of the franchise across DS and 3DS there's the promise of hundreds of puzzles and a generous dosage of gentlemanly charm, offset by the knowledge that — for now at least — this is the last adventure starring the tea-drinking Professor.
And fans of the series will be immediately comfortable in Azran Legacy, but treated to enough fresh touches to also feel that this is a worthy successor. In terms of storytelling and presentation this is among the best that Level-5 has produced. Although the polygon-based approach first seen in Miracle Mask is simplistic on a technical level, it encapsulates the offbeat and inherently optimistic portrayal of the world. Set in a world both representative of 1960's twee and yet somewhat modern, it's perhaps how many of us would envisage life in its most friendly, easy-going state. This is also a title that sets the bar for the series in terms of delivering detailed environments full of life, while the soundtrack and voice acting are top-notch.
More so than any other entry in the series, Azran Legacy explores a fairly broad variety of locations and environments, moving well beyond the Curious Village début on DS to truly incorporate an adventure around the world. In fact, it's quite possibly the closest to bombast that the series has reached, though it retains its old-school innocence; as a concluding part to the prequel trilogy, this tale of unearthing the Azran secrets is packed with incidents both global in implication and those focused on Layton specifically. Fans of the lore behind this franchise will most definitely enjoy the twists on offer, with moments that are touching and maintain the series' reputation for tackling serious themes through its fantastical settings.
The charm of Layton is often found in the dialogue and extended cast of characters, and in these areas Azran Legacy shines. The script-writing benefits from the central conceit of the adventure, in which you're tasked with retrieving five items vital to unearthing the secrets of the Azran civilisation. This allows scope to travel to eight main locations — and more — and thus lends the greatest diversity yet in a Layton yarn. Each location is packed with sub-stories and characters, and while some may feel that this presents a danger of losing narrative focus, it holds together. Through dealing with different arcs we learn more not just about Layton, but Luke, Emmy and some new characters; at times the writing is borderline edgy, but is portrayed with a refreshingly pure world-view. The handling of what could have been overwrought twists late in the game is exceptional, overriding the standard Layton peculiarity with skill.
Of course, we've barely mentioned the game itself up to this point. That's not because it's irrelevant, but simply the fact that it's the plot and setting that arguably differentiate and define the series. The formula is at its best here, however, and though we were fans of some of the 3DS-specific segments and puzzles incorporated into Miracle Mask, traditionalists that fell in love with the Professor and his friends on the DS will be pleased to note that this new entry returns to the basics. There's no top-down dungeon crawling or even puzzles that attempt to utilise the stereoscopic screen in a meaningful way. This is conventional, straight-and-narrow Layton.
And in a sense that's appropriate for this concluding part, as the control scheme here manages to replicate the simple charm of the DS titles. As before, scanning an environment for puzzles, hidden objects and hint coins is now done by dragging the stylus on the bottom screen while watching for indicators on the magnifying glass above; it's far more intuitive and relaxing than relentlessly tapping over each screen, and enables you to take in the sights of each area on the 3D display.
As for the puzzles themselves, once again there are enough to keep gamers busy for a significant period of time. The core adventure weighs in with around 150 — once again — though it's technically possible to beat the story with around 85 actually completed, of which roughly a dozen will be core to the story and impossible to skip. Unsurprisingly, as this is the sixth entry in the series, there can be a mild sense of déjà vu as you move fuel between two flasks, rearrange beams of light or determine how many strawberries each of four children should receive.
Yet, to be clear, there's no real sense of plagiarism — of itself — going on, as inevitably there are limits and besides, Level-5 is continuing a series. Much like Mario's jump feeling familiar, or Link often picking up a hookshot, retreading puzzle genres and styles is absolutely inevitable. With the occasional slip-up aside, the difficulty of each typically matches the Picarats on offer — the currency that ultimately determines how many bonuses you receive on beating the game — and for puzzle fans, this will be the usual heavenly bombardment of challenges. Some are heavily driven by logic, others rely on visual interpretation, some require a degree of trial and error, and others are head-scratchers to occupy a good deal of time. The provision of Hint Coins to find is fairly generous, but can still quite easily be burned through by those pursuing completion of all puzzles, which in turn unlocks even more extras and brain-teasers.
As is standard for the franchise, there are additional tasks and sub-games to tackle as they're unlocked through the main adventure. This time around they're functional, the best of which is "Nut Roller", in which you push various items onto a top-down grid to ultimately nestle an acorn safely in a hut; these are creative and rather challenging. "Blooms & Shrooms" is similar, in that you try to place grids of flowers onto a decrepit garden to invigorate it back to life; this one focuses on careful placement and strategy, as you seek to trigger a chain reaction. The mode that most suits steady, thorough exploration and completion of all puzzles is "Dress Up", as items unlocked in the adventure are available for a Style Boutique-esque challenge where you take multiple requests from characters to provide an outfit matched to their moods. Without unlocking the full array of accessories these challenges are impossible to beat, so completionists have an extra avenue to explore.
There's even more besides to add to the already extensive replayability on offer, beyond the "Collection" of items to find. Additional snippets of dialogue and story — often rather quirky — are once again included in the "Episodes" area, while there are StreetPass-enabled "Treasure Hunt" options — items of interest scattered around the game can be set in groups of three as challenges to send to others through the service, and can be received in the same way; completion of these hunts provides points for unlockable goodies. Those concerned about their StreetPass hit prospects do have the option of spending Play Coins for challenges from Layton, making it available for all. Throw in "World Times" newspaper snippets that hint at areas to revisit to find even more areas and puzzles, and there's a lot to do.
There is also, of course, the Bonus area. The series tradition of Daily Puzzles will continue, while there's the option to replay puzzles completed or discovered, we have "Layton's Challenges" — which are rather tricky — and, depending on your Picarat total, "Top Secret" options. This is a game that expects you to go well beyond the 15 hours required to blitz the campaign, and the reality is that over a number of months many players will, while those with Miracle Mask also have an opportunity for some cross-game unlocks.
The great strength of Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is that beyond its core mechanic of dishing up hundreds of puzzles, it is imbued with an effortless and delightful charm. In some senses this entry — despite on relatively rare occasions feeling tired in its puzzle variety — captures the best of the four DS and preceding 3DS titles. It has the largest scope yet keeps its focus on a relatively small cast with some humorous, occasional extras. It keeps the gameplay simple, which is sure to please fans of the DS entries, and successfully flits between the silliness of its own universe and serious, heartfelt storytelling.
Ultimately, it's an experience packed with nods and winks to fans — we would suggest playing at least Last Specter and Miracle Mask before jumping in here — and provides a satisfying conclusion. And, of course, it merely concludes the prequel, with a delicacy of touch in its finale to almost tempt us to revisit the Curious Village and replay the latter trilogy. There's so much more to this than simply playing through the story, too, ensuring that potentially dozens of hours could eventually be lost in occasional visits to see the Professor.
If Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy really is the end of an era, it's a fitting sign-off. Hershel Layton and his companions have been wonderful additions to the DS and 3DS systems, bringing gracious simplicity and charm with each release. This concluding entry captures the best of the new and old, and is indispensable to fans of the franchise. Farewell Professor, you truly have been a gentleman and a scholar.


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"Gateway respects what I bring to the company as an MCSE. My director trusts my judgment, and goes with what I recommend in terms of new hardware and software. Plus, Gateway pays the costs [of] earning your Microsoft certification-classes, travel, exams—and during annual reviews, holding the MCSE certainly plays a positive role in determining raises and promotions."
Roscovius manages the 50-workstation network serving Product Development Services' Human Factors and Information Solutions groups, which, among other tasks, conduct computer usability studies and produce PC user manuals. Roscovius handles all network troubleshooting and maintenance, with four network servers running Windows NT and another two already running Win2K. Within the Human Factors/Information Solutions areas, Roscovius is currently the only MCSE. In Product Development Services overall, however, approximately 10 other individuals are now working toward their MCSE or upgrading their Microsoft certifications to Win2K.
According to Kori Vanderloo, Gateway Consumer Products program manager, Roscovius' MCSE title affords her and her colleagues a sense of security. "We know Jim has taken the time to go through the training and earn that certification. He knows what he's talking about, and his expertise helps us all work more efficiently."
Roscovius notes that since he joined Gateway in 1998, several companies have tried to lure him away with lucrative job offers. But he's staying put. It's not just a matter of a little more money, he says. Gateway's perks are just too good. For example, in return for promising to remain with Gateway for a set time, usually two to three years, an employee gets a free PC for personal use. In addition, Gateway employees enjoy stock option and stock purchase plans, profit sharing, generous amounts of paid time off, and no formal dress code (shorts and T-shirts in summer). Then, as far as Roscovius is concerned, there's the clincher: Gateway is family-friendly to the extreme. The company offers excellent family health coverage, and allows employees the flexibility to deal with family emergencies as well as planned events.
"If one of my kids gets sick, I can take off from work to take care of that," says Roscovius. "It's not a problem. The same with school events such as plays-Gateway is good about allowing you the time to attend. As far as I know, there just aren't that many IT positions offering this kind of flexibility. I'm not planning on going anywhere."
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Do you have backups of all your data in separate places? Are there documents or pictures you have not scanned? Do you have paper copies that are the "only one?"
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I'm just going to come right out and say it. We.Women.Need.Chocolate.
The mood lifting qualities of chocolate cannot be denied. There is simply no such thing as too much chocolate. At least, that's how I see the world – through chocolate tinted glasses.
Last week, in anticipation of Valentine's Day, I began my adventure in chocolate candy making. What began as an experiment ended happily ever after with a blissful box of three varieties of dark chocolate candy.
First, I started with Sea Salt Caramels dipped in Dark Chocolate. You can read that harrowing journey right here.
My next adventure in chocolate candy making led to these two decadent delights:
Raspberry Chocolate Squares and Toffee Bites.
Raspberry Chocolate Squares
The first thing you do is gather about 18 to 20 ounces of chocolate, whether squares or chips. Determine what level of sweetness you really want. Of course, you may have to suffer through several tastings.
You can mix semisweet with unsweetened.
Or try bittersweet mixed with semi sweet.
Decisions decisions.
One of each – how can you go wrong ?
If you're unsure, here's my recommendation. Go with the 60% bittersweet chocolate.
It's da bomb.
Make your choice, then melt as follows: In a microwave safe bowl, melt on high for the first minute, then remove from heat and stir. Continue to microwave on high, stirring every 30 seconds, for approximately 2 to 3 minutes until most of your chocolate is melted. Keep stirring until it's all melted (do not overcook) and it looks like this.
Rinse your berries.
Optional: pour into fine mesh strainer to remove seeds.
Blend with 3/4 can of sweetened condensed milk.
Stir, then pour into mold of choice.
I used a flexible mini brownie mold.
Smooth with spatula.
Allow to harden for two hours, then pop out of mold.
Voila ! Your own homemade chocolate raspberry squares.
Delicious. And nutritious.
I'm convinced this counts as one portion of daily fruit.
Because of the sweetened condensed milk, these do not completely harden. They are more like really really dense fudge. A trivial detail to true chocolate lovers.
Toffee Bites
The Toffee Bites are crazy easy. Simply melt your chocolate as described above, then add half a bag of Heath toffee bits to the melted chocolate.
Pour toffee mixture into candy molds like these – they are found at craft stores or specialty candy supply shops. These I found at Michaels for $1.50 each.
Allow to cool for about two hours, then pop them out of their plastic molds. Smooth any rough edges with a zester.
It's helpful to wrap your fingers in plastic, whether saran wrap or plastic sandwich bags, since the heat from your fingers will start to melt your chocolates while you file the edges.
Now for the candy boxes – they are a quick assembly with just a few supplies. If you can create labels on your computer with Avery Ink Jet labels, then you can make these.
First, I bought the white candy boxes at the craft store, some seasonal heart doilies, and bright red ribbon on a roll.
I made the labels on my computer (Microsoft Word's 'Label' tab – just input the Avery number then choose your font). I printed them, then trimmed the edges with scalloped scissors.
Steps: 1) Assemble the candy box; 2) Use a glue stick to secure the doily to the top of the box; 3) Measure the amount of ribbon to wrap around box, 4) Trim labels with craft scissors, then 5) Secure ribbon in place around candy box with personalized label.
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Imagine this situation: you're about to negotiate a long-term partnership for a massive expansion project. Money is on the table. Values are on the table. Everything's on the table. How do you decide what to prioritize?
18 months ago, I entered lease negotiations with real estate developer, John McEnery IV, who our board had selected to develop the food component of Abbott Square. John would run Abbott Square Market, a multi-vendor food and drink business, adjacent to the plaza, adjacent to the museum. John would manage the food, the MAH would manage the museum, and we would co-manage the plaza. That's all we knew going into negotiations.
There were lots of big unresolved questions. How much money would we each bring to the table? How much would John pay for rent and how should we structure it? Who would manage construction? Who would steer the design? Who would pick the food vendors? Who would be responsible for what in the plaza? When would the market be open and under what conditions?
I was overwhelmed and under-confident. I needed a way to focus. I needed a way to get direction from our board and staff on what was inviolate and what was negotiable. I needed the board's leadership without having all of them involved in every little deal point.
So we did two exercises—with board and staff, separately—to develop our priorities. I suspect these exercises might be useful in any complicated project. It is in that spirit that I share them with you.
Nonprofit folk are familiar with this 2x2 grid, with mission fulfillment on one axis and financial sustainability on the other. Nonprofits use this grid to analyze program performance and to explore ways to shift UP towards higher mission fulfillment and/or RIGHT towards higher profitability.In the case of the Abbott Square Market negotiation, we used this matrix to get a basic sense of our goals. We'd been leasing the site of the future Market as commercial office space for years: solidly profitable, with no mission impact. That (red) dot was our starting point.
We gave board and staff members this diagram and asked them: when the Abbott Square project is complete, where do you want this dot to go? Do you want us to make the same amount of money but increase the mission impact? Would you sacrifice some money for greater mission impact? Would you sacrifice some mission potential for more money?
They drew their dots, building consensus around the blue dot shown. The project had to increase mission impact. And it had to do as well--or better--than the office building financially.
So we structured the rent in a "base with kicker" format. The museum is guaranteed a monthly base rent that is stable and comparable to what we were receiving when the space was leased for offices. But if the Market does better than a certain threshold, we get more money - a kicker - above the base. That's the dotted line potential for the revenue to increase.
In the months leading up to the lease negotiation, trustees and staff voiced lots of different priorities for the project. Some focused on the need for Abbott Square to be as welcoming and inclusive as the MAH. Others cared about it being clean. Still others wanted local food vendors. And so on.We couldn't succeed in negotiations if everything was a top priority. There had to be some things we could trade to get other things that mattered more.
So I wrote up ten distinct priorities we'd heard throughout the process and invited board and staff members to each pick their top three.
We tabulated all the top priorities by votes to generate a ranked list. While trustees and staff had different top priorities, the cumulative priorities were clear. We were able to split the original ten priorities into five "must-haves" and five non-essential preferences. You can see them in this chart. The must-haves on the left, and the negotiable non-essentials on the right.
Unsurprisingly, the five must-haves were the ones that hewed closest to the MAH mission. But they were not the ones people talked about the most in the months leading up to this exercise. Once we had to prioritize, some sexy, much-discussed ideas—like celebrating local food—gave way to core MAH values—like celebrating cultural diversity.
Focusing on five priorities gave me focus and freedom. I could focus on what was important, and I had the freedom to pursue and protect those important elements in whatever way I felt best. In many ways, the five "non-essentials" were even more helpful than the must-haves, because I knew I could deal them away as needed.
In the end, we signed a contract that answered all the big questions about how to manage the project. Any contract would have done that. But the answers hewed to the priorities articulated through these two exercises. No matter how small the deal point, I knew I could use these big priorities as a guiding light. And board and staff knew that I was acting on their collective wisdom and our shared vision for success.
What techniques have you used to set priorities for a big, complicated negotiation?
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Apr 12, 2014
The last bit of 2013 green tea
I tasted a few samples of this tea in 2012 and immediately fell in love with it. In recent years, I've decided to introduce at least one or two "new" (I mean new to American market) green teas to America. For example, in 2011, it was Orchid Fairy Twig. In 2012, it was Bai Mei Hua Jian. Up till today, not many people have heard of this latter tea (but the knowledgeable barbel carp tea lexicon has included this tea, impressive!), either in China or else where. But it's not less tasty than many very famous green teas. Last year, my "new" tea to bring up was supposed to be this "wild orchid bud". But unfortunately, a whole shipment with this tea and a few others were lost in transition, and eventually I only got a little bit of this tea as a gift in an order of other teas. But this year, it will come again!
Why would I drink old tea while the new tea is already here? There are a few reasons.
First, I'm very thrifty. Got to finish the old tea, no waste of tea!
Secondly, no matter how good the old tea remains, once you start the new tea, under the comparison, you will immediately switch to new tea and won't want any of the old tea anymore. You all know it.
Thirdly, it's ok to wait for a while. Traditionally, it was recommended that the new green tea should rest for 2-4 weeks before usage. It was for several combined reasons, including the flavor development of the tea and the traditional Chinese medicine theories. Whether or not the tea is healthier after a couple of weeks' resting, there isn't any evidence-based conclusion yet. But I do believe it and wouldn't mind waiting for a big longer. In the old days, one wouldn't even think about whether the green tea needs to be rested for 2-4 weeks, because nobody could get it any time sooner anyway. It used to take weeks for a green tea to be transported from its hometown to the province next to it. Nowadays, it takes several days for a tea to be transported from its mountain to another side of the earth, and it is possible to drink a new tea very soon. But it wouldn't be too much pain to wait for a bit longer. So, try to finish your 2013 tea first! ;-)
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- SimpliciTEA said...
I have read with Huang Shan Mao Feng sometimes it helps to let the tea 'rest' (to lessen the 'smokiness', I think) but I didn't know it was traditional to let all green teas rest. Glad to read that.
I am with you on wanting to drink all of the old before taking in the new (I am thrifty myself). I have been drinking up the last bits of my 2013 green teas as well (luckily I don't have too much left). Sometimes I leave a little bit of the old to compare with the new (if I buy the same tea). I hear you on wanting to only drink the new once it starts coming in, for then it seems like a 'chore' to drink the old!
It must be fun to be sitting on all of that new green tea. From what I read, so far the harvests in China have been going reasonably well this year?
- April 13, 2014 at 11:49 AM
- Gingko said...
Hi Joe, this year seems a great year for green tea. Harvest dates in most places were later than last year, and the weather during harvest season is overall good (no rain etc.) This guarantees elongated growth period and good amount of harvest. So far, the only bad news I've heard of is about silver needle (white tea though), whose harvest was interfered by rain to some degree.
- April 21, 2014 at 9:06 PM
- John Milton said...
I have got very good knowledge from your blog post. I think we should use green/white tea regularly for our health. Nice to read this post. Please keep further posting.
Thank You.
White tea health benefits - April 23, 2014 at 5:39 AM
- SimpliciTEA said...
Hi Gingko,
I am glad to hear this year is a great year for tea!
Joe - April 26, 2014 at 12:38 AM
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I was among the first generation of women in the 1960s to experience the miracle of the pill just at the age when I was wanting to start having sex. All I had to do was take a pill every day, I was told, and hey presto, I didn't have to worry about getting pregnant if I didn't want to, and it worked! But oh, if only it had all turned out to be that easy! Like one in three women in the UK today, a country where contraceptive prevalence is almost as high as it can get, I needed an abortion several years later. Again, I was lucky, the 1967 Abortion Act meant I was able to get a legal abortion. The lesson is simple—while contraception continues to be a miracle, because it helps people not to have children if and when they don't want to, it is not enough on its own and it never has been.
Family planning has been out of the news for a long time, and suddenly it's back. Welcome! Bring out the red carpet, and I mean it! Women and men need contraception now as much as they have ever done, and young women and men who are beginning to explore their sexuality together need contraception and condoms more than anyone. But there has been a lot of water under the bridge since family planning was promoted as the cure-all for the world's ills in the 1960s when the pill came out, and everyone needs to study that history anew so that the same mistakes, of which there have been many, and the same narrow vision, are not repeated.
My generation of women's health activists, along with a whole generation of researchers, service providers, and policymakers who brought their knowledge together at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994, got the world to recognise that the need for the means to control fertility, which is as old as history itself, was part of a much broader set of needs related to reproduction and sexuality, and that these were inextricably connected. These include: being able to have sex without fear of negative outcomes, being able to have sex if and only if we want to and only with whom we want to, being able to have the children we want, being able to get pregnant at all, being able not only to survive pregnancy but also still be in good health, being able to have a safe abortion without fear of death or condemnation when an unwanted pregnancy occurs, being able to protect ourselves from sexually transmitted diseases, and being able to get treatment for all the many causes of reproductive and sexual ill-health, which start with menstruation and menstrual problems, and continue into old age with things like breast and prostate cancer and uterine prolapse.
There is indeed a huge unmet need in today's world, but the unmet need for contraception is only a fraction of the unmet need for sexual and reproductive health, and for sexual and reproductive rights. The results we should be working for encompass every aspect of the issues I have just named, and those in turn must be seen in the even wider context of the right to health, social justice, and an end to poverty and violence—which were the real point of the Millennium Development Goals – not the measurable targets.
I will be blogging about these issues in the light of the FP Summit over the next few weeks at http://bererblog.wordpress.com—watch this space!
Marge Berer is the editor, Reproductive Health Matters.


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Northrop Grumman Corp. will highlight its specialized space capabilities at SATELLITE 2014 for products ranging from secure military satellite communications to antenna technologies that will help NASA monitor California's ongoing drought.
The annual conference and exhibition is being held March 10-13 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Programs featured at the company's exhibit – No. 7111 – will include two company initiatives that leverage government and company investments in technologies to make SATCOM more affordable and resilient.
– Protected satellite communications: Northrop Grumman is showcasing products that incorporate technologies the company developed for the U.S. Air Force's protected satellites currently on orbit but adapted for future architectures.
These include (1) hosted payloads for the Enhanced Polar System (EPS), which will provide continuous coverage for secure, jam-resistant, strategic and tactical military satellite communications in the North Polar Region; (2) the EPS Control And Planning Segment (CAPS), which leverages foundational capabilities for an affordable, scalable, pathfinder mission control capability for any variety of future protected satellite communications architecture options; and (3) Low Cost Terminals for affordable protected satellite communications for tactical fighting forces.
– Gallium Nitride Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (GaN MMIC): The company has developed a line of GaN MMICs for military and commercial uses based on its high-frequency GaN process that achieved top-level performance and quality under military contracts received beginning in 2002. Target customers are in the defense and commercial ground satellite communication terminal markets and the commercial wireless infrastructure market.
Scientific missions will be another focus of Northrop Grumman's activities at SATELLITE 2014. Astro Aerospace, a Northrop Grumman strategic business unit, is providing a deployable satellite reflector and boom assembly for NASA's Soil Moisture Active/Passive (SMAP) mission. The agency says SMAP will advance its ability to monitor droughts like the evolving one in California, and predict floods and mitigate their related impacts on people's lives.
The company also will give a presentation that explains the various components of protected SATCOM Wed., March 12, at 10:30 a.m. in the main exhibit hall – Exhibitor Showcase Theater. The speaker will be Northrop Grumman's Tim Frei, vice president, communication systems.
Learn more about programs Northrop Grumman is featuring at SATELLITE 2014 by visiting an online media kit at http://www.northropgrumman.com/MediaResources/MediaKits/Satellite/Pages/default.aspx.